DeadlineHollywood Entertainment Breaking News2015-03-31T21:53:54Zhttp://deadline.com/feed/atom/WordPress.comAnthony D'Alessandrohttp://deadline.com/?p=12014022202015-03-31T21:39:49Z2015-03-31T21:28:28ZExclusive: Christopher Walken is joining Kevin Spacey in EuropaCorp's high-concept comedy Nine Lives directed by Barry Sonnenfeld, written by Daniel Antoniazzi and Ben Shiffrin. In Nine Live, a workaholic businessman (Kevin Spacey) will have to figure out how to redeem himself after a terrible accident leaves him trapped in the body of his family’s cat. Walken plays Felix Grant, the owner of a mystical pet shop, who assists the businessman during his feline time of…]]>0Mike Fleminghttp://deadline.com/?p=12014022352015-03-31T21:32:26Z2015-03-31T21:20:03ZEXCLUSIVE: More fallout following this morning’s bombshell exit of CAA agents Jason Heyman, Martin Lesak, Gregory McKnight, Greg Cavic and Nick Nuciforo, who all left to bolster the comedy department of UTA. CAA shortly will be filing legal action, charging that some if not all of those defectors left while under binding contracts and seeking redress. I am told that historically this is not unusual when major agents exit to a rival agency. It doesn’t undo what happened…]]>6Nellie Andreevahttp://deadline.com/?p=12014022232015-03-31T21:27:38Z2015-03-31T21:00:27ZHouse Of Lies‘ fourth-season finale on Sunday, Showtime’s dark comedy has been renewed for a 10-episode fifth season to air in 2016. The Don Cheadle-starring series joins companion dramedy Shameless, which was renewed for a sixth season in January. The third series of Showtime’s comedy-themed Q1 original lineup, half-hour Episodes, is yet to be renewed, but a pickup is expected — with the question being whether it would be Hollywood satire’s final…]]>3David Liebermanhttp://deadline.com/?p=12014021612015-03-31T21:33:54Z2015-03-31T20:44:42Zstocks. AMC Entertainment led the way among the companies we follow most closely, with shares up 35.6% from the end of 2014. Carmike (+27.9%) followed in the exhibition group, along with Cinemark (+26.7%) and Regal Entertainment (+6.9%).
They stood out in a period when the Dow Jones U.S…]]>0Erik Pedersenhttp://deadline.com/?p=12014021702015-03-31T20:56:09Z2015-03-31T20:37:28Z]]>0Nellie Andreevahttp://deadline.com/?p=12014018432015-03-31T21:10:53Z2015-03-31T20:27:13ZGoogle’s augmented reality game Ingress is eyeing a leap to television. I’ve learned that the web giant has teamed with The Sean Daniel Company, which produces Syfy’s upcoming space opera The Expanse, to develop a TV drama series based on Ingress, a game which uses real locations and social media interactivity to bring its 10 million players together in a global sci-fi mystery. This would mark Google’s first foray into television.
The Sean Daniel Co. is meeting with…]]>0Patrick Hipeshttp://deadline.com/?p=12014021872015-03-31T21:46:27Z2015-03-31T20:25:06ZHistory has gone into development on The Boys Of ’67, a potential scripted series about the First Platoon of Charlie Company, 9th Infantry Division, the only unit raised, trained and deployed en masse to service in Vietnam. Die Hard and The Fugitive scribe Jeb Stuart is reuniting with the network to write and executive produce the project, based on the book by Andrew Wiest.
No other details are available, but among his recent credits Stuart just finished adapting The Liber…]]>0Dominic Pattenhttp://deadline.com/?p=12014020682015-03-31T21:10:35Z2015-03-31T20:24:02ZEXCLUSIVE: Some of the names have changed, but the aims have not — and for CBS that means go hard. In a blunt, brisk and not really giving-an-inch response to the class-action-seeking complaint former CBS Radio intern Camille Demere first filed on January 26, the company said today it wants the whole thing tossed out.
"Defendants respectfully request that this Court: (a) dismiss the Complaint in its entirety, with prejudice; (b) deny each and every request for relief set…]]>0Lisa de Moraeshttp://deadline.com/?p=12014020012015-03-31T21:34:58Z2015-03-31T20:22:15ZThe Daily Show host, Comedy Central said this afternoon it is standing by Trevor Noah while the media continues to blast away at the comic’s Twitter history, digging up some pretty incendiary stuff in less than 24 hours.
"Like many comedians, Trevor Noah pushes boundaries; he is provocative and spares no one, himself included," Comedy Central felt compelled to say this afternoon, following a brutal morning of Noah bashing in the press. "To…]]>23Mike Fleminghttp://deadline.com/?p=12014021852015-03-31T20:43:48Z2015-03-31T20:19:14ZEXCLUSIVE: The first big shoe has dropped after the exit of five senior CAA comedy agents to UTA. I’m told that Chris Pratt has followed his reps Jason Heyman and Martin Lesak to UTA. When Pratt began working with those agents, he was a comedy client, a cast member on Parks And Recreation. That series has just finished its run, and now Pratt has become so much more than that. He has emerged as perhaps the brightest leading man to come along in a long time. He starred in Gu…]]>4Erik Pedersenhttp://deadline.com/?p=12014021192015-03-31T19:27:04Z2015-03-31T19:17:08ZCBS and PBS are way ahead of the field network-wise. The Eye scoring 62 nominations to lead the field, with the pubcaster landing 50. ABC is third with 35, and NBC has 20. Nickelodeon tops the cable field with 18.
While there’s no denying that the face of daytime TV has changed dramatically during the past decade, it’s still the soap operas that attract the most attention from the National Academy of…]]>0Nellie Andreevahttp://deadline.com/?p=12014021152015-03-31T19:29:09Z2015-03-31T19:00:02ZFX has ordered a 13-episode fourth season of its praised 1980s Russian spy drama The Americans. The pickup comes four episodes remaining in the current third season, which will conclude with the finale on April 22.
"Remarkably, this season of The Americans has achieved even greater acclaim than that of its first two seasons,” FX’s Nick Grad said. “The series has cemented it status with critics as…]]>10